Berlin Airlift recalled by Rainelle native on reunion trip
Three years after World War II, Charles K. Church and his wife Jo Ann plan a Berlin reunion trip to mark the 50th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift. The 1948 relief effort, led by Gen. Lucius Clay, saw C-47s and C-54s deliver food to a blockaded Berlin, countering Soviet pressure and ending with the city supplied for 15 months.
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Rainelle
Berlin
G.I
Wehrmacht
Joseph Stalin
Europe
Charles K. Church
Germany
Stalin
Harry Truman
Japan
Church
White House
Lucius D. Clay
Jo Ann
German Airlift Gratitude Foundation
Clay
U.S. Air Force
Rhein-Main
Wiesbaden
Russia
Air Force
Cleanup begins at site of CSX derailment
At Huntington, crews start cleaning 30,000 gallons of spilled formaldehyde and coal after a CSX 148 car train derailed north of town. Hundreds evacuated. 12 people hospitalized with burning eyes and sore throats. residents await return as access roads reopen and investigation continues.
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CSX
Huntington
David Edmunds
Edmunds
Gordon Merry
Cabell County Emergency Services
Merry
CSX Transportation Inc
Cincinnati
Cumberland
Kathy Burns
Burns
Neighbor helps repair as truck sticks out wall
John Lancianese offered to help a neighbor with home repairs when his truck stuck out of a hole in the basement wall. He acknowledged he was lucky to be alive after the near accident, as the crash issue unfolds further on page 10A.
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John Lancianese
Lancianese
West Virginia deputies buy their own sidearms in multiple counties
In 11 West Virginia counties including Boone, deputies pay 500 to 700 dollars for their own weapons, a practice defended by some officials as longstanding. The pattern spans at least 10 other states, with sheriffs noting fringe benefits vary and policy drives costs, while residents remain largely unaware.
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Charleston
Boone County
Delmar Browning
Browning
Commission
West Virginia
Braxton
Gilmer
Lincoln
Hampshire
Marshall
Mineral
Logan
Monroe
Summers
Wirt
Sherry Combs
Madison
Dean Moser
National Sheriffs Association
Alexandria
United States
Moser
Arizona
Colorado
Hawaii
Kentucky
Missouri
Nevada
New Mexico
North Carolina
Ohio
Tennessee
David Hawken
Miller County
Hawken
Routt County
Colo
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Rebeccan Cantley
Register-Herald Reporter
Phyllis Cook
Eddy Arthur
Randall White
Dave Evridge
Colorado State Patrol
Smith & Wesson
OFFIC
Assy
Loa
LOTTO
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Arava
Robert C. Byrd
Beckley
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